{"id":622859,"date":"2026-04-22T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:07:10","slug":"formula-e-claims-new-gen-4-car-will-slash-lap-times-by-10-seconds-and-more-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622859\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E claims new Gen 4 car will slash lap times by 10 seconds, and more \u2013 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Fixy, Kaylee911, Tracy Brockman, Tracy and Thomas Krol!<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"onthisday\"\/><br \/>\nOn this day in motorsport<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2019\/03\/06\/the-time-a-fastest-lap-bonus-point-won-hamilton-a-championship\/racefansdotnet-20060910-094754-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-387623 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/racefansdotnet-20060910-094754-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Hamilton, GP2, 2006\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-387623\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> got in trouble in his third GP2 start today in 2006<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago today Gianmaria Bruni won the GP2 race at Imola, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> was disqualified while leading for a Safety Car infringement<br \/>\nBorn today in 1978: Future Minardi Formula 1 driver Esteban Tuero<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Wednesday\u2019s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Fixy, Kaylee911, Tracy Brockman, Tracy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-622859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}